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TT is back! Techne has discovered the surest way to fight cancer: a healthy dose of bad-ass scholastics.

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If the emergence of cancer is a causal process and we want to know what causes cancer and we want to design something that causes cancer cells to die, I suppose a good way to start is to have a proper understanding of what a cause is in the first place. Again, what follows is an attempt to briefly lay out a few important Scholastic concepts with regard to causality as it will be relevant before ditching "random variation" and natural selection" as "explanations" or "reasons" or "causes" for the emergence of cancer.

Since Gary's so boring and clueless, I thought I'd mention that the exchange on the TT link I gave, between Guts and several other commenters about his newfound skepticism, is pretty interesting. He mentions Newtown, they say the Problem of Evil is no big problem for theism at all, and he goes on to give evidence--some from his critics' own comments--that it's actually a really big fuckin problem for christianity. Worth a gander.

Since Gary's so boring and clueless, I thought I'd mention that the exchange on the TT link I gave, between Guts and several other commenters about his newfound skepticism, is pretty interesting. He mentions Newtown, they say the Problem of Evil is no big problem for theism at all, and he goes on to give evidence--some from his critics' own comments--that it's actually a really big fuckin problem for christianity. Worth a gander.

Thanks for the reference Steve. Quite enjoyable compared with Gary's...uh...lunacy and UD's crickets.

In reading through, this comment from Daniel caught my attention in particular:

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Daniel Smith Says:November 24th, 2012 at 2:48 pm

As all fundamentalist kids eventually ask “Just exactly who did Cain,Able and Seth marry?”

And any good fundamentalist parent will answer with Genesis 5:4 – "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." (BTW, I don't think Abel married anyone!)

Danny-boy there clearly didn't think through his knee-jerk fundy parent response. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that Caine's and Seth's wives must have been several hundred years younger than their husbands.

--------------we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed. Bilbo

The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

Since Gary's so boring and clueless, I thought I'd mention that the exchange on the TT link I gave, between Guts and several other commenters about his newfound skepticism, is pretty interesting. He mentions Newtown, they say the Problem of Evil is no big problem for theism at all, and he goes on to give evidence--some from his critics' own comments--that it's actually a really big fuckin problem for christianity. Worth a gander.

Thanks for the reference Steve. Quite enjoyable compared with Gary's...uh...lunacy and UD's crickets.

In reading through, this comment from Daniel caught my attention in particular:

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Daniel Smith Says:November 24th, 2012 at 2:48 pm

As all fundamentalist kids eventually ask “Just exactly who did Cain,Able and Seth marry?”

And any good fundamentalist parent will answer with Genesis 5:4 – "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." (BTW, I don't think Abel married anyone!)

Danny-boy there clearly didn't think through his knee-jerk fundy parent response. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that Caine's and Seth's wives/sisters must have been several hundred years younger than their husbands/brothers.

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Ew.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad